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Railsong

By Rahul Bhattacharya

Railsong

By Rahul Bhattacharya

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'Magnificent' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'Majestic yet profoundly tender' MEGHA MAJUMDAR A breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the story of an individual coming of age amid the social and political upheavals of twentieth-century India. In a newly independent India charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects. As diesel engines replace steam and the calamitous churn of drought, famine and a great strike engulfs her town, Charu dares to imagine a different future for herself. She boards a train and flees westwards, leaving behind the oppressive domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay. Unfazed by the everyday discriminations around her, she becomes an unlikely hero: a railway woman and census enumerator who keeps her heart open -sometimes guilelessly - to her nation's vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is a powerful portrait of grit, optimism and the force of character that enables one remarkable woman to live on her own terms in a country full of contradictions.
Product details
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2026-02-12
Publication Date:
2026-02-12
Publisher:
Bloomsbury UK
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1526691728
ISBN13:
9781526691729
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
630 g
Height:
165 cm
Width:
238 cm
Thickness:
40 cm
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